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Guerrilla Girls reveal enduring inequalities in museums and galleries at Whitechapel Gallery - Museums + Heritage Advisor At a time when museums are increasingly cash strapped who would have thought that a bunch of women wearing gorilla masks to disseminate a series of outrageous graphics would prove to be the most effective...

Books By People of Color Are Disproportionately Likely to Be Banned | Bitch Media /Sherman Alexie has the distinct honor of topping the list of most-banned books. Photo by Chase Jarvis./ What do a picture book about gay penguins, a graphic memoir centered on Iran, and a comic about cosmic war have in common? They’re all among the books that were most likely to be challenge...

Museums make you happier and less lonely, studies find Here are 6 reasons you should take a long lunch tomorrow and head off to your local museum.

Gotta love that medieval marginalia....

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The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World The dark trade of collecting books used to get really messy.

Oxford University Presents the 550-Year-Old Gutenberg Bible in Spectacular, High-Res Detail The great British empiricist Francis Bacon once remarked that Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press “changed the whole face and state of the world.' Although Gutenberg did not independently devise the press, he invented a mass-production process of moveable type and concocted an oil-based ink which, w...

Ever wish you could live inside your favorite book? You can at this incredible new place. There's nothing like sharing a book with your kid — except maybe jumping inside one. Discover the Rabbit hOle, the world's first "ExploraStorium."

Want to Work in 18 Miles of Books? First, the Quiz Four decades ago, the Strand created a short literature test for job applicants, which has become as much a part of the bookstore’s identity as its tote bags.

The Great Library Rescue of Timbuktu Haidara told nobody outside his fellow librarians what he was doing—not even his family.